Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc bits
 - the rest of MM
 - add generic fixmap.h, use it
 - backlight updates
 - dynamic_debug updates
 - printk() updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - binfmt_elf
 - ramfs
 - init/
 - autofs4
 - drivers/rtc
 - nilfs
 - hfsplus
 - Documentation/
 - coredump
 - procfs
 - fork
 - exec
 - kexec
 - kdump
 - partitions
 - rapidio
 - rbtree
 - userns
 - memstick
 - w1
 - decompressors

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits)
  lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures
  romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super
  drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation
  drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug
  userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks
  arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase()
  fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix
  fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding
  rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()
  rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct
  rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches
  partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
  kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
  kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note
  kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
  fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once
  ...

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo
+Date:		October 2007
+KernelVersion:	2.6.24
+Contact:	Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
+		Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
+		Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
+Description
+		Shows physical address and size of vmcoreinfo ELF note.
+		First value contains physical address of note in hex and
+		second value contains the size of note in hex. This ELF
+		note info is parsed by second kernel and exported to user
+		space as part of ELF note in /proc/vmcore file. This note
+		contains various information like struct size, symbol
+		values, page size etc.

Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt

@@ -36,21 +36,30 @@ allowing one to squeeze more programs onto an average installation or
 rescue floppy disk.
 
 
-2) Kernel Command Line Parameters
+2) Parameters
 ---------------------------------
 
+2a) Kernel Command Line Parameters
+
 	ramdisk_size=N
 	==============
 
 This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size.  The
-default is 4096 (4 MB) (8192 (8 MB) on S390).
+default is 4096 (4 MB).
+
+2b) Module parameters
 
-	ramdisk_blocksize=N
-	===================
+	rd_nr
+	=====
+	/dev/ramX devices created.
 
-This parameter tells the RAM disk driver how many bytes to use per block.  The
-default is 1024 (BLOCK_SIZE).
+	max_part
+	========
+	Maximum partition number.
 
+	rd_size
+	=======
+	See ramdisk_size.
 
 3) Using "rdev -r"
 ------------------

Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt

@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications.
 		return NOTIFY_OK;
 	}
 
-	static struct notifier_block foobar_cpu_notifer =
+	static struct notifier_block foobar_cpu_notifier =
 	{
 	   .notifier_call = foobar_cpu_callback,
 	};

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/haoyu,hym8563.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Haoyu Microelectronics HYM8563 Real Time Clock
+
+The HYM8563 provides basic rtc and alarm functionality
+as well as a clock output of up to 32kHz.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: should be: "haoyu,hym8563"
+- reg: i2c address
+- interrupts: rtc alarm/event interrupt
+- #clock-cells: the value should be 0
+
+Example:
+
+hym8563: hym8563@51 {
+	compatible = "haoyu,hym8563";
+	reg = <0x51>;
+
+	interrupts = <13 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_FALLING>;
+
+	#clock-cells = <0>;
+};
+
+device {
+...
+	clocks = <&hym8563>;
+...
+};

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/maxim,ds1742.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+* Maxim (Dallas) DS1742/DS1743 Real Time Clock
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Should contain "maxim,ds1742".
+- reg: Physical base address of the RTC and length of memory
+  mapped region.
+
+Example:
+	rtc: rtc@10000000 {
+		compatible = "maxim,ds1742";
+		reg = <0x10000000 0x800>;
+	};

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ fsl	Freescale Semiconductor
 GEFanuc	GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Embedded Systems, Inc.
 gef	GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Embedded Systems, Inc.
 gmt	Global Mixed-mode Technology, Inc.
+haoyu	Haoyu Microelectronic Co. Ltd.
 hisilicon	Hisilicon Limited.
 hp	Hewlett Packard
 ibm	International Business Machines (IBM)

Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt

@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ If your query set is big, you can batch them too:
 
   ~# cat query-batch-file > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 
+A another way is to use wildcard. The match rule support '*' (matches
+zero or more characters) and '?' (matches exactly one character).For
+example, you can match all usb drivers:
+
+  ~# echo "file drivers/usb/* +p" > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
+
 At the syntactical level, a command comprises a sequence of match
 specifications, followed by a flags change specification.
 
@@ -315,6 +321,9 @@ nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'format "nfsd: READ" +p' >
 				<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 
+// enable messages in files of which the pathes include string "usb"
+nullarbor:~ # echo -n '*usb* +p' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
+
 // enable all messages
 nullarbor:~ # echo -n '+p' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 

Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX

@@ -10,32 +10,40 @@ afs.txt
 	- info and examples for the distributed AFS (Andrew File System) fs.
 affs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System.
+autofs4-mount-control.txt
+	- info on device control operations for autofs4 module.
 automount-support.txt
 	- information about filesystem automount support.
 befs.txt
 	- information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
 bfs.txt
 	- info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
+btrfs.txt
+	- info for the BTRFS filesystem.
+caching/
+	- directory containing filesystem cache documentation.
 ceph.txt
-	- info for the Ceph Distributed File System
-cifs.txt
-	- description of the CIFS filesystem.
+	- info for the Ceph Distributed File System.
+cifs/
+	- directory containing CIFS filesystem documentation and example code.
 coda.txt
 	- description of the CODA filesystem.
 configfs/
 	- directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
 cramfs.txt
 	- info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
-dentry-locking.txt
-	- info on the RCU-based dcache locking model.
+debugfs.txt
+	- info on the debugfs filesystem.
+devpts.txt
+	- info on the devpts filesystem.
 directory-locking
 	- info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
 dlmfs.txt
 	- info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
 dnotify.txt
 	- info about directory notification in Linux.
 dnotify_test.c
-	- example program for dnotify
+	- example program for dnotify.
 ecryptfs.txt
 	- docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
 efivarfs.txt
@@ -48,12 +56,18 @@ ext3.txt
 	- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
 ext4.txt
 	- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
-files.txt
-	- info on file management in the Linux kernel.
 f2fs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the F2FS filesystem.
+fiemap.txt
+	- info on fiemap ioctl.
+files.txt
+	- info on file management in the Linux kernel.
 fuse.txt
 	- info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
+gfs2-glocks.txt
+	- info on the Global File System 2 - Glock internal locking rules.
+gfs2-uevents.txt
+	- info on the Global File System 2 - uevents.
 gfs2.txt
 	- info on the Global File System 2.
 hfs.txt
@@ -84,40 +98,58 @@ ntfs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
 ocfs2.txt
 	- info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
+omfs.txt
+	- info on the Optimized MPEG FileSystem.
+path-lookup.txt
+	- info on path walking and name lookup locking.
+pohmelfs/
+	- directory containing pohmelfs filesystem documentation.
 porting
 	- various information on filesystem porting.
 proc.txt
 	- info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
+qnx6.txt
+	- info on the QNX6 filesystem.
+quota.txt
+	- info on Quota subsystem.
 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
 	- info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
-reiser4.txt
-	- info on the Reiser4 filesystem based on dancing tree algorithms.
 relay.txt
 	- info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
 romfs.txt
 	- description of the ROMFS filesystem.
 seq_file.txt
-	- how to use the seq_file API
+	- how to use the seq_file API.
 sharedsubtree.txt
 	- a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
 spufs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
+squashfs.txt
+	- info on the squashfs filesystem.
 sysfs-pci.txt
 	- info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
+sysfs-tagging.txt
+	- info on sysfs tagging to avoid duplicates.
 sysfs.txt
 	- info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
 sysv-fs.txt
 	- info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
 tmpfs.txt
 	- info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
+ubifs.txt
+	- info on the Unsorted Block Images FileSystem.
 udf.txt
 	- info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
 ufs.txt
 	- info on the ufs filesystem.
 vfat.txt
-	- info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95
+	- info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95.
 vfs.txt
-	- overview of the Virtual File System
+	- overview of the Virtual File System.
+xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
+	- info on the XFS Delayed Logging Design.
+xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
+	- info on XFS Self Describing Metadata.
 xfs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
 xip.txt

Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt

@@ -81,6 +81,62 @@ nodiscard(*)		The discard/TRIM commands are sent to the underlying
 			block device when blocks are freed.  This is useful
 			for SSD devices and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs.
 
+Ioctls
+======
+
+There is some NILFS2 specific functionality which can be accessed by applications
+through the system call interfaces. The list of all NILFS2 specific ioctls are
+shown in the table below.
+
+Table of NILFS2 specific ioctls
+..............................................................................
+ Ioctl			        Description
+ NILFS_IOCTL_CHANGE_CPMODE      Change mode of given checkpoint between
+			        checkpoint and snapshot state. This ioctl is
+			        used in chcp and mkcp utilities.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_DELETE_CHECKPOINT  Remove checkpoint from NILFS2 file system.
+			        This ioctl is used in rmcp utility.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO         Return info about requested checkpoints. This
+			        ioctl is used in lscp utility and by
+			        nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPSTAT         Return checkpoints statistics. This ioctl is
+			        used by lscp, rmcp utilities and by
+			        nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO         Return segment usage info about requested
+			        segments. This ioctl is used in lssu,
+			        nilfs_resize utilities and by nilfs_cleanerd
+			        daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUSTAT         Return segment usage statistics. This ioctl
+			        is used in lssu, nilfs_resize utilities and
+			        by nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_VINFO          Return information on virtual block addresses.
+			        This ioctl is used by nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_BDESCS         Return information about descriptors of disk
+			        block numbers. This ioctl is used by
+			        nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_CLEAN_SEGMENTS     Do garbage collection operation in the
+			        environment of requested parameters from
+			        userspace. This ioctl is used by
+			        nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_SYNC               Make a checkpoint. This ioctl is used in
+			        mkcp utility.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_RESIZE             Resize NILFS2 volume. This ioctl is used
+			        by nilfs_resize utility.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_SET_ALLOC_RANGE    Define lower limit of segments in bytes and
+			        upper limit of segments in bytes. This ioctl
+			        is used by nilfs_resize utility.
+
 NILFS2 usage
 ============
 

Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt

@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(foo, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, show_foo, store_foo);
 is equivalent to doing:
 
 static struct device_attribute dev_attr_foo = {
-       .attr	= {
+	.attr = {
 		.name = "foo",
 		.mode = S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
-		.show = show_foo,
-		.store = store_foo,
 	},
+	.show = show_foo,
+	.store = store_foo,
 };
 
 

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -1059,7 +1059,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
 
 	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
-			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
+			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
+			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
+			GPT to be used instead.
 
 	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
 			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
@@ -1461,6 +1463,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Valid arguments: on, off
 			Default: on
 
+	kmemcheck=	[X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
+			Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
+			kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
+			kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
+			kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
+			Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
+
 	kstack=N	[X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
 			in oops dumps.
 

Documentation/printk-formats.txt

@@ -55,14 +55,21 @@ Struct Resources:
 	For printing struct resources. The 'R' and 'r' specifiers result in a
 	printed resource with ('R') or without ('r') a decoded flags member.
 
-Physical addresses:
+Physical addresses types phys_addr_t:
 
-	%pa	0x01234567 or 0x0123456789abcdef
+	%pa[p]	0x01234567 or 0x0123456789abcdef
 
 	For printing a phys_addr_t type (and its derivatives, such as
 	resource_size_t) which can vary based on build options, regardless of
 	the width of the CPU data path. Passed by reference.
 
+DMA addresses types dma_addr_t:
+
+	%pad	0x01234567 or 0x0123456789abcdef
+
+	For printing a dma_addr_t type which can vary based on build options,
+	regardless of the width of the CPU data path. Passed by reference.
+
 Raw buffer as a hex string:
 	%*ph	00 01 02  ...  3f
 	%*phC	00:01:02: ... :3f